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esoneraV W. HUNT, or WINGHENDON, MASSACHUSETTS, `ASSIGNOR.To",WASHINGTONWHITNEYAND I. DUNN.` i si Letters PatentNo. 71,388,dated.November-26, 186,7; antedated November 22,1867. A

STovcovnn LETER.

TO ALI; WHOM IT MAY CON CERI@ 1 Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HUNT, of-Winchendon, in the county otiWorcester, and State of Massa, chnsetts,have invented an improved Stove-Cover Lifter; and I do`hereby declarethat the following, taken in connection with the drawings whichaccompany and form part of this specification, is a description of myinven` tion suicient to enable th'ose skilled in `theart to practiseit.V i 4 This device is designed as an improvement on others now in' usefor the samepurpose, it.beingextrcmely: simple, cheap, effective, andconvenient, as it is not liable'to the breakage incident tocast-ironlifters, is cheaper than forged ones, and does not require ahandle like other wire lfters nlade of a single wireshaft, or of two` uwires, or one wire doubled, twisted together into a single shaft. Y' iThe device ids-shown in the drawing in the best form known to me. p 1 Mylifter'is made of one piece of wire, bentinto a loop at the end which isto be grasped by the hand, the distance apart of the two portions of thewire at saidvend being su'ch'us to admit ofa firm hold, and to preventturning, while at the other'end of the implementthc wires are unitedtogether, suchV a formation or shape being f. given to said' end as willadapt it to the means provided in oron any given cover for the couplingtherewith bt'` 1 f the lifter.- i In the drawingvthe free ends' of thewire are shown as bent inward and toward the l1andend, in which con` idition there are four parallelpartsof wire, which are weldedl tog-etheranld shaped as desired.` i"

As the formation of thelifter is entirely open, it is easily hung in itsappropriate placeon a nai such form gives great radiating surface inproportion to its` cross-section Vand bulk, the hand-,end remains coolenough to be grasped, even `if the point is coupled with a very hotcover. There is also a peculiar spring or` yield tothe implement, whichis an advantage in its practical use. A i

The free ends of the wireimay be united by or to a cast piece, ofsuitable shape for-coupling with a cover; get wrought iron may be weldedto said ends and suitably shaped.

The longitudinal curvature of the entire lifter may be made as desired;but I prctei` to have it such that,`

when resting on any plane surface, `some part Vof the'hand-end can begrasped without contact of the hand with the supportngpsurface.

` I claim, as a new article of manufacture, the lifter, when constructedsubstantiallyas described.

GEO. W. HUNT. V

l; and, as

Witnesses:

Guns H. WHITNEY, Amos W. BUTTmcK.

